Bigger And Better Babies! 1930

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Description

Baby elephants are the subject of this film.

L/S of about twenty baby elephants walking in a row through what is presumably a zoo enclosure. Men walk alongside the elephants. A man leads one of the smallest elephants along by its ear. He holds its trunk and blows into it.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
15449
Sort Number:
EP 188
Time in/Out:
01:19:51:00 / 01:21:19:00
Canister:
EP 188
Film ID:
918.09
Issue Date:
15/05/1930

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